Author Topic: Altitude monkeys? (Read 1912 times)

Major_Hans · « **on:** January 08, 2003, 04:27:49 PM »

You tell me if I'm flying too high

Sancho · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2003, 05:11:25 PM »

nice formation... but not very practical or safe to fly that close in microgravity with full thrust being applied. you would almost have to have a network linking all ships so that they all thrust at the same exact moment, and a computer making tiny thrusts to maintain position.

It's airshow pretty, and with conventional aircraft in atmospheric fight, it would be a good way to concentrate firepower on a large target. But in space, you don't really have to have your nose pointed at what your shooting, so wouldn't you want to have your ships dispersed a bit more for safety?

I'm just giving you a hard time. Nice pic, nice model.

Ridge · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2003, 06:05:30 PM »

ya, Orbiter is a nice game.

Major_Hans · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2003, 02:29:12 PM »

I have something that may get them to dive though

Chaos68 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2003, 03:12:06 PM »

Isnt those from some 80's movie? (first post)

Where do you get that program? is it a game or just a program?

sev · « **Reply #5 on:** January 11, 2003, 03:42:08 PM »

http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html

Major_Hans · « **Reply #6 on:** January 11, 2003, 05:20:47 PM »

The ships are from Babalon 5.

The game is a freeware space flight simulator alot like Microsoft Flight simulator. Very complex, but no combat. I added the StarFury fighters because they're a favorite of mine.

I am currently adding the Millenium Falcon for fun right now.

Major_Hans · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2003, 04:04:06 PM »

And she is done. I'm not going to waste any more time on this one.

frank3 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2003, 09:08:04 AM »

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Originally posted by Major_Hans
I'm not going to waste any more time on this one.

you're not?.......

Major_Hans · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2003, 09:58:02 AM »

Nope. There is always room for improvments to the models. Glass for instance.

Instead I've decided to start making more models. Different models. Like space stations and such.

Major_Hans · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2003, 05:27:56 PM »

like this rocket shuttle

Russian · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2003, 09:05:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Major_Hans
And she is done. I'm not going to waste any more time on this one.

Did you do FM to it or just model? I'd like to fly that...

Major_Hans · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2003, 11:22:15 PM »

Well, I did the flight model too, if you can call it that. The flight model just simply has the Millenium Falcon with main, retro, and hover thrusters. It won't fly areodynamically. It does have a long lasting fuel supply and alot of thrust. Wings are not needed.

In fact test flying it I actually started to get re-entry flames over the ship's hull while in a shallow climb. Thats alot of power.

Russian · « **Reply #13 on:** January 17, 2003, 09:21:33 AM »

How about a download link?

or email is simfreak777@hotmail.com

Major_Hans · « **Reply #14 on:** January 17, 2003, 07:19:48 PM »

The game itself, called Orbiter.

http://www.orbitersim.com

The addon repository (actually it's a site for alot of different flight sims, including orbiter.

http://www.avsim.com